Prior to the start of any timber harvest on Finch-managed lands, a Finch forester walks for miles through the woods, marking with paint each of the trees that has been scientifically selected to be removed by the logging crew. We paint the trees in two spots, once at eye level and once at the base. During and after the harvest, our foresters walk through the woods again, looking for the marks at the bottoms of the trunks to ensure that only the proper trees have been cut.